What is customer experience? According to Wikipedia, it’s this: Customer experience (CX) is the sum of all experiences a customer has with a supplier of goods and/or services, over the duration of their relationship with that supplier. This can include awareness, discovery, attraction, interaction, purchase, use, cultivation and advocacy. It can also be used to mean an individual experience over one transaction; the distinction is […]

Running a business can stink. You have way too many things to worry about! If you don’t pay the bills, nobody does. If you’re not making money, there’s no way to pay those bills. Prioritizing tasks can seem nearly impossible when they’re piling up on you. And when we feel overwhelmed, many of us tend to leave […]

How do you know if your customer experience is working? REALLY working? Analytics and data tell you part of the story. If the numbers go up, then you can believe things are working, right? And if the numbers tell you a different story, then you better shape up your experience. But the world is changing […]

There are plenty of legal risks that could become serious problems within your business. These legal risks include many points that relate to complaints about misrepresentation or items that are not working as well as possible or even issues relating to injuries and other common threats. It is clear that people are often going to […]

by Robi Ganguly I recently had the opportunity to attend San Diego’s Next Generation Customer Experience conference and present a session on the role of mobile in closing the gap in customer experience. The conference attracted some of the biggest names in customer centricity from all over the retail, hospitality, and financial service industries. Each […]

by Adam Toporek As readers of Experience Investigators are aware, micromoments help form an integral part of any customer experience. Micromoments are those little parts of the customer experience, often overlooked by organizations, that can have a big impact on the customer’s experience, such as the phrasing of an email, the verbiage on a sign, […]

Have you ever struggled with how you can listen better to your customers? What if you have lots of them? What if they love your product enough to be passionate about sharing feedback? It can be a challenge to not only hear the feedback, but to then dispense it to the right groups within your organization. […]

The world is changing, and fast. We’ve come to accept the incredible pace of innovation. But have you thought of how it’s impacting your customer’s expectations? With the widespread acceptance of apps like Uber and Tinder, customers are demanding more personalized, instantaneous experiences. But many brands aren’t keeping up, leaving the door wide open for […]

In many ways, publicity and marketing set the stage for your customers, and it can lead to moments of delight or huge disappointment. Better marketing isn’t the lifeline. Recently, I was contacted by a marketing agency regarding one of their clients. The retail chain was having serious problems with their business results slipping. Certain stores were […]

Spring Break! Fun in the sun! Time away! And then that time you fly home with your family…only to be mistreated so incredibly that writing this blog seems like the only recourse I have. Let me present the facts. We booked a flight to Puerto Vallerta, Mexico in October. We flew from Chicago’s O’Hare airport […]